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B. BRANNER. ALBUM AND SUPPORT FOR THE SAME. N0. 440,462. Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

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A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES BERNARD BRANNER,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ALBUM AND SUPPORT FOR THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,462, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed January 29, 1890.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNARD BRANNER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improved Album and Support for the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The objects of this invention are to produce a novel and convenient form of album and provide a pivotal support for the same upon a stand or frame to facilitate inspection of the contents of the album.

To these ends my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a portion of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both of the fig ures.

bigure 1 is a perspective elevation of a bracket-stand and the improved form of an album pivotally supported thereon, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detached View of the album.

The picture-holding album A is constructed in duplex form, thus doubling the capacity of the device for retention and exhibition of photographs or other works of art.

As shown in Fig. 2, the album consists of duplicate books, which meet at their backs, and are retained so connected as to permit the free folding movement of the leaves of each book-section by an encircling band a, that is secured by any proper means at the point of junction of the sections.

As the two album-sections are of equal dimensions, the band a will be located near the center of weight of the connected sections, and to adapt it to have a pivotal support on a bracket-stand B there are socket-plates I) attached on the band at opposite points, which represent the center of width and breadth of the end portions of the band a; or perforations may be made in the band directly at proper points for the pivotal support of the album, if this is preferred.

The picture-holder or double album just described is provided with the usual clasps Serial No. 338,439. (No model.)

a to retain the lids in closed adjustment, and as a means of support to permit the contents of either section to be readily inspected the upright bracket-frame B is provided.

Any preferred form may be given to the frame 13, it being susceptible of more or less ornamentation, as desired, the essential requisites being the provision of two upright posts 0, each mounted on a comparatively wide base piece or foot d to afford a stable support for the album A, which is held loosely engaged with the posts by oppositely-inserted adj ust-able set-screws or bolts 6, the points of which enter the capped sockets in the plates b, and thus permit the album to be rotated on these pivotal supports.

By an enlargement of the album and its frame support a convenient receptacle for engravings or other works of art is afforded.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a bracket-frame and set-screw bolts oppositely located thereon, of an album comprised of two sections that may be opened in opposite directions, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a bracket-frame having two upright parallel posts and a setscrew bolt for each post, which is transversely inserted so that the points of the screws are axially aligned, of an album comprised of two sections, which are equal and held together at their backs by an encircling band that is adapted to have a socket-connection with the set-screw bolts on the bracket-frame, substantially as set forth.

3. An album comprised of two similar booksections, which are attached to each other at their backs and adapted to swing on a bracketframe by an encircling band, which is provided with sockets at opposite points near the centers of its end portions, substantially as described.

BERNARD BRANNER. 

